Politics, Groups, and Identities

Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association

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How do Australian voters feel about Indigenous politics? Foxworth et al. explore this, surveying voters on support for the creation of an Indigenous advisory board, finding Indigenous voters significantly more supportive, as well as predictors for non-Indigenous support.

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How do the five US territories regulate civil rights for sexual minorities? Peterson explores debates among territory officials to provide a framework for how territorial officials regulate the lives of their queer residents.

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How does the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement contribute to our understanding of democracy? Cline and Krewson demonstrate that the EJ movement holds governments and larger environmental orgs accountable. They draw on the case of Uprose, a grassroots EJ org in Brooklyn, NY.

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Do voters apply different standards of parental responsibility to mother and father candidates? Venugopalan finds that both mothers and fathers suffer from negative parenting information, justifications improved their evaluations, and the penalty and recovery was equal for both.

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Why do locals engage in politics? Using Ohio labor unions, Reuning draws on social movement literature to posit that locals engage in politics when they have excess resources—although engagement might be hampered by internal divisions.

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Wise demonstrates how consumer credit perpetuates racial hierarchy in the United States. She argues that predatory inclusion is best understood as "accumulation through dispossession, naturalized by race and structured through intersectionality."
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How do conservative think tanks weaponize framing to counter the messaging of social activism? Carter & Jones ask this in their article, analyzing how conservative think tanks opposed social activism through their framing of the BLM protests of 2020.

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Laws and SoRelle find that although people view individual Black students are more deserving of debt relief, this sentiment does not translate to positive views on racially-targeted debt relief policies or race based rhetoric on debt relief.

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How does American public opinion on transgender people, and the safety of women and children affect the passage of trans "bathroom bills"? Miller et al. explore this, finding beliefs here to have distinct effects on attitudes toward these bills.

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📢How can we better capture the nuances of Latino racial identity? Clealand & Gutierrez investigate this, challenging a homogenous view of racial identity and finding differing racial identities between mixed & medium skin tone Latinos, and Black Latinos.

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📢What is the role of the criminal legal system in perpetuating racial oppression? Middlemass explores this in her article, drawing a framework for racial oppression from the work of Dr. Mae King, applying it to the criminal legal system.

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📢What can we learn from the oral histories of Black politics? McClerking & Block Jr. explore this in their article, analyzing these stories and what they can tell us about political science's relationship with research on Black people.

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📢How can "deviant" Black politics destabilize dominant views within political science, and better analyze blackness and politics? Davies explores this in her article, analyzing Black scholarship and encouraging methodological pluralism in Black politics.

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📢Interested in understanding racial politics from the perspective of Black political scholarship? Take a look at the PGI special issue "FLOWERS FOR THE FOUNDERS: A CONTEMPORARY REVISITING OF CANONICAL BLACK POLITICS SCHOLARSHIP?"

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📢 Antisemitism, Israel, & campus politics, what is the relationship? Wright, Hecht, & Saxe find that anti-Jewish sentiments are more common on the far-right; anti-Israel sentiments some consider antisemitic are more common on the left.

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